Re: [Ekiga-list] Selecting network interface that Ekiga uses

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le jeudi 22 janvier 2009 à 14:59 +0000, Nigel Dallard a écrit :
> > I'm 100% sure that there are two PDUs going out : one with the
> > VPN address and one with the other address. Only one of them
> > being successful.
> 
> Damien,
> 
> A close look at the video server logs shows that you are correct.
> 
> Two INVITEs go out via the VPN to the video server, one originating from
> my PCs' VPN IP address, one from my PC's ethernet address.
> 
> The video server is running a conferencing application, to which both
> calls are connected. Normally, with only one call connected, I get a
> "hold" video from the server, but because there are two calls connected,
> I get no video, as it isn't receiving any video from the other party (my
> own ethernet port!). That was what was confusing me.
> 
> Is there no way to stop the second call being made? Surely it would make
> more sense that either I manually specified which interface/IP address
> that ekiga is to use, or ekiga dynamically determines which one to use
> from the routing table - if it knows it hasn't got a route to the called
> party from the ethernet port, why send a packet (via the VPN port)
> originating from the ethernet port's IP address?

Just because we can not guess if it will work or not.

You should fix your routing table so that only things for the VPN, reach
the VPN.
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